The 21-year-old has swapped the blue of the Lang for the black and white hoops at Glens after he broke his ankle at the start of this season and failed to nail down a spot in Paul McColl’s starting 11.

Having scored the winning goals for Tower Hearts under-21s against Glencairn under-21s at season in both the League Cup final and the championship decider, the striker will be a familiar face to Glens fans.

New boss Willie Harvey believes the player has made the correct choice by choosing to join Lang’s local rivals.

He said: “Alessandro is one who we’ve been interested in for a while. He played against our under-21s and we were looking at him at him before the start of the season. But a coach at Tower Hearts moved to Cambuslang and took several players with him.

“He was made available late last week and we moved quickly for him. He’s a good striker who can score goals.”

Savarese watched from the stand as The Glens staged a dramatic comeback to grab all three points on Saturday against 10-man Irvine Victoria.

The Vics stunned everybody by taking the lead against the run of play on the half-hour mark. A passing move ended with a speculative shot from distance by Kevin Adam which seemed to deceive JC Hutchison as it skipped off the surface past him into the net.

But after a relentless series of attacks, Glencairn refused to give up and got their reward with an equaliser in the 86th minute. Tony Fraser’s inswinging corner from the right was met by the head of Del McNab who glanced the ball into the net.

And the drama continued deep into added time as the home fans jumped for joy in the 94th minute when they were awarded a penalty.

A cross from the right struck the arm of a defender inside the penalty area and Jay McKay sent keeper Lamb the wrong way.

Jay McKay found the net from the penalty spot in the 94th minute

Glencairn gaffer Harvey was proud of his players’ determination to get all three points.